After it was confirmed that RTX 5090 was suffering temperature management problems with its power connector, we have known that The RTX 5080 is running the same fate.
The 16 -pin food connector of the RTX 5080 is also melting
The problems of 16 pins feeding connector from NVIDIA They do not stop appearing on social networks. This same week it was reported that the problem that was present at the RTX 4090 was also affecting the new RTX 5090, and it has now been confirmed that the company's high -end GPU is not the only one affected.
Through a Reddit publicationa user has shown as its 16 -pin feed connector has melted in one of their tabs. Specifically, the user said the GPU light began to flash in red, which indicated that a pin of its connector did not work properly.
After this, the user tried to connect the cables correctly after turning off your PC. However, despite the fact that the error had disappeared on the motherboard, the resolution of the monitor and the frequency of update were reduced considerably. In addition, the surprise was even greater when the GPU began operating in PCI-E X3 mode.
And here came the surprise. When the user decided to tried to connect the cables again, he found that The 16 pins connector was moltenbut not on the side of the graphics card, but in which I went to the power supply.
The good news for the user is that his Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 has not suffered any kind of problembut the power supply did not run the same fate, because the part where the card was connected melted in one of the pins.
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Although we already knew that these problems were present at the RTX 5090, which is also affecting the lower range of Nvidia is much more shockingsince they analyzed, the company's star card has a much smaller margin, because these types of connectors support up to 660W, something that is quite far from the 360W required by RTX 5080.
